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Stamford-based Charter Communications Inc. is buying Bright House Networks LLC for $10.4 billion in the latest big deal in the pay-TV industry. Companies want to merge as costs for channels like ESPN have shot up, while their video subscribers have dipped and online video providers like Netflix become more popular. Combining gives them more negotiating power against programmers such as The Walt Disney Co. Last year, Comcast said it was buying Time Warner Cable for $45 billion, and AT&T is purchasing DirecTV for $48.5 billion. Both are under long-running regulatory reviews. But the Comcast-Time Warner deal has raised concerns from competitors and consumer and Internet advocates, who...

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Stamford-based Charter Communications Inc. is buying Bright House Networks LLC for $10.4 billion in the latest big deal in the pay-TV industry.Companies want to merge as costs for channels like ESPN have shot up, while their video subscribers have...

Leadership Greater Hartford (LGH) announced today that it has received a $2,500 grant from Comcast to support their Common Ground youth leadership program.
Common Ground is a fifteen-week program that engages high school students from the Greater...

Windsor Woman's Club arts & craftsWINDSOR - During the Windsor Woman's Clubs recent March meeting, member submitted arts & crafts items were displayed and judged. The first-place winners now go on to be judged at the district, and then...

Pick it up!To all dog and pet owners, please pick up your dog's poo when you take them out for a walk around the neighborhood. It is has become an eyesore and it never used to be like this. It's very unhygienic when you allow your dogs to poo on...

March 9, 2015, Windsor, CT - Easter Seals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut is pleased to announce that Stanley Black & Decker along with Comcast and NBC Connecticut will be the presenting sponsors of the 28th Annual Crystal Ball to be held...

The Comcast Foundation announced today that it awarded more than $500,000 in grants to 21 nonprofit organizations throughout New England in 2014. The grants support programs aimed at the Comcast Foundation's areas of focus - expanding digital literacy,...

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission took two actions that we should rejoice about in Connecticut: First, it declared that broadband is an essential public utility, like electricity or the telephone, to which every citizen should have...

There was a whole lot of laughter, an equal amount of bonding, and tons of crafty creativity on display as twenty-five very enthusiastic young people from New Britain gathered recently at Comcast's Western New England Regional Office in Berlin to...

HARTFORD — Minor league sports franchises have come and gone in Hartford, but the city's American Hockey League franchise is still chugging along at the XL Center.In 2016, Hartford will get a new minor league sports team when the Eastern League's New...

With NASCAR's season just a month away, a few drivers are still adjusting to new teams and several crew chiefs are adjusting to new drivers.The most notable change in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series – which opens with the Daytona 500 on Feb. 22 – is Carl...

TOLLAND - Drew Crandall, a descendant of one of the town's most prominent families, and his business, Keep In Touch, have become the latest major donor to support this year's Tolland 300th Anniversary celebration. Crandall, Keep In Touch's...

WASHINGTON — In a push to remove barriers to high-speed, affordable broadband for all Americans, President Barack Obama has cited Manchester and Bristol among dozens of towns across the nation that have taken steps to improve local Internet access.
The...

Comcast is opening the doors of its local Public Access TV Studio to residents of Cromwell, East Hampton, Middlefield, Middletown and Portland on Thursday November 20th from 6:00pm- 8:00pm for the studio's Fall Open House. The studio is located at 199...

At a corner table, in an expensive restaurant, somewhere in Greenwich, Republican heavyweights Tom Foley and Linda McMahon share a light lunch.
McMahon: What are you going to have, Tom?
Foley: Not sure, do they have crow?
McMahon: You gave it your best...

WEST HARTFORD — One of the town's most eclectic events, the Park Road Parade, steps off Saturday for the 17th year.The Park Road Parade was the brainchild of Richard Patrissi, known as the unofficial "Mayor of Park Road."Patrissi, who died in...

Comcast is hosting an open house at its Danbury Public Access TV Studio for residents of Bethel, Danbury and Ridgefield on Wednesday, December 17th from 6:00-8:30 pm. This Open House will be held at the studio located at 5 Shelter Rock Road in...

A $50 makeup credit to all 170,000 former U-verse video subscribers has not stopped the complaints, or defections, following Frontier Communications' takeover of AT&T's statewide landline-broadband-television service.
Since the transition to...

If you are a CT resident, utility rate changes from monopoly industries in our state are of concern to you. The department that monitors and is the primary "gatekeeper" for these issues is the Office of Consumer Counsel (OCC) in New Britain,...

Comcast Corp.'s blind TV executive Tom Wlodkowski says the company's "talking TV guide" for the visually impaired will go live on the nation's largest cable-TV system by Dec. 1.The talking guide, still in its beta phase, can be accessed by...

Comcast is opening the doors of its local Public Access TV Studio to residents of Norwich, Bozrah, Colchester, Franklin, Lisbon, Preston and Sprague on Thursday, December 4th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm for the studio's Fall Open House. The studio is located...